Resource: Using Clustering to Make a Color Scale

by the Editors - October 20, 2016

Choice of color scale can make a big difference in how the data reads. A careless choice might make the data appear skewed too far low or too far high, so you need to look at the data and decide what’s right for the context. But, sometimes you just gotta make a lot of charts or maps. Or, you just don’t feel like manually picking the colors.